Search Results

“I don’t believe in dictating the boundaries of a sentient being’s existence,” Nadia (Natasha Lyonne), Russian Doll’s supremely... Read more »

As someone who is neither British nor Irish, this writer’s first encounter with Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls resulted in a certain amount of befuddle... Read more »

A frenetic, angry energy announces itself almost immediately in Robert Mulligan’s 1972 gothic thriller The Other. That’s not surprising given the... Read more »

The volunteers and staff of the Port Kembla Community Centre, located in a economically depressed Australian steel town on the stunning New South Wales coast... Read more »

Radu Muntean’s One Floor Below continues the vaunted tradition of the Romanian New Wave’s emphasis on the quotidian realities of existence, but t... Read more »

Based on a true story, Lion is an old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing film that succeeds on its own admittedly less-than-ambitious terms. It has been accused of si... Read more »

Filipino auteur Lav Diaz’s latest magnum opus might be the ideal entry point to so-called “slow” cinema, especially for those who bristle a... Read more »

Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog’s latest fiction effort is this curious, fitfully amusing but largely stilted film that pretends to be an eco-thrille... Read more »

Writer-director Alice Lowe (Sightseers) makes her directorial debut with this highly discomfiting, darkly satirical slasher film. Lowe, who was heavily ... Read more »

Anna Rose Holmer’s audacious, atmospheric feature debut follows the journey of 11-year-old Toni as she makes the confusing transition from lonely tombo... Read more »

After the cult success vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi returns with a decidedly more mainstream coming-of... Read more »

Soberly billed as ‘the first scientific science fiction film,’ Fritz Lang’s final silent feature, 1929’s Frau im Mond, is really almo... Read more »

Fans of ’80s cheese will likely eat up Night of the Comet with a gag-worthy spoon. With its B-movie horror aesthetic, campy Valley Girl dialogue, and s... Read more »

The latest edition to the emerging genre of 'faith-based-on-a-true-story' films for the evangelical set, Captive recounts the harrowing ordeal of real-life f... Read more »

Johnny Depp temporarily throws off the fantastical shackles of Wonderland and the Pirates franchise to once again portray someone who more or less resem... Read more »

With her cinematic swan song, legendary avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Akerman (who died last year at the age of 65) gets profoundly personal, training her st... Read more »

Sean Anders, the guy who directed Sex Drive (2008), That’s My Boy (2012) and Horrible Bosses 2 (2014,) foists another rotten nugget of mean-spirited me... Read more »

Given the passing of John Berger just last month at the age of 90, it’s difficult not to view The Seasons in Quincy through an elegiac lens, and at tim... Read more »

There are two mysteries at the centre of Goodbye Berlin, neither of which really has anything to do with the film’s focus on the mild comedic misadvent... Read more »

In Ed Perkin’s documentary Garnet’s Gold, a peculiar man with an improbable name, Garnet Frost, sets out on the quest of his life, a quixotic jou... Read more »

“That dog is an asshole!” Joe (Nicolas Cage) declares mid-way through David Gordon Green’s Southern crime drama, when the vicious beast bar... Read more »

It’s hard to represent the creative process of invention on screen without resorting to cliché. Gillies Mackinnon’s Castles in the Sky, ho... Read more »

Brits Harry Treadaway and Game of Throne's Rose Leslie are fresh-faced American newlyweds Paul and Bea in Leigh Janiak’s entertaining if problemat... Read more »

There’s an unsettling streak of casual brutality running through Thomas Cailley’s impressive feature debut – tellingly, the film’s Fr... Read more »

The latest slice of Scandi-pulp to make its way over the North Sea, Danish thriller The Keeper of Lost Causes is a nicely shot, formulaic exercise in moody b... Read more »

There’s a brief image in Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s startlingly self-assured debut feature that could have been plucked directly from Sofia Coppo... Read more »

For someone whose onscreen alter-ego is known as “Silent Bob”, Kevin Smith sure can talk. In Scotland for screenings of his new film Yoga Hosers ... Read more »

Kids in Love has all the power and poignancy of a 90-minute Tommy Hilfiger ad, although the latter might be preferable considering it wouldn’t have spe... Read more »

Based on a true story, My Pure Land is a moving family drama that manages to fold issues of gender politics and land rights in rural Pakistan into an engross... Read more »

Coffee is the beverage of choice in Maximilian Hult’s sweet but never treacly directorial debut, and with a name like Home, it’s not difficult to... Read more »